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Howard detectives arrested three men in a prostitution operation, police announced Wednesday afternoon.

A Fort Meade man has been charged with multiple counts of human trafficking and assault after trafficking a woman from Maryland to California and back.

Howard County police arrested a woman from Brooklyn, New York, last week on suspicion of human trafficking after receiving a tip leading detectives to a Laurel hotel, police said.

Eight men were arrested at a hotel in the 10100 block of Washington Boulevard in Laurel and charged with solicitation of prostitution and disorderly conduct.

Donald Trump's secretary of labor regards child sex trafficking victims as thow-away people, says Leonard Pitts. Jr.

A Laurel man was one of seven men from across the state arrested in Howard County’s latest prostitution sting, police announced Tuesday.

Six men were arrested and charged with solicitation of prostitution and disorderly conduct during an undercover operation conducted by the Howard County Police Department.

Eleven men were arrested for solicitation of prostitution and related charges during an undercover operation Wednesday, Howard County Police announced Friday.

The mystery of how 16-year-old Annie McCann wound up in Baltimore and how she ingested a fatal amount of the numbing agent lidocaine, has never been solved.

Howard County Police arrested a Jessup man on Feb. 27 for human trafficking, police announced on Wednesday.

In an effort to curb alleged illegal activity in local “massage parlors,” three women were arrested recently by the Harford County Sheriff’s Office on solicitation charges.

Howard County police arrested two men in Elkridge on Nov. 17 in a human trafficking and drug case.

Keven Oswald Joseph, 36, was charged with human trafficking and prostitution, police said Friday, and is being held without bond at the Howard County Detention Center.

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The Carroll County Sheriff's Office conducted an operation Wednesday to catch individuals soliciting for prostitution.

Rhue Cook sits at her desk in The Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Community Center of Baltimore (GLCCB) building in Old Goucher and writes down the

Candy, Lori and Doreen are introduced to the lurid, yet enticing world of working in the pornography business.

Kamal Germaine Dorchy, 43, faces multiple counts of human trafficking. He is currently being held without bond at the Howard County jail.

Son of prominent defense attorney sentenced to 2 years in prostitution case

Hoping to help Maryland human trafficking survivors clear criminal records, a University of Baltimore law school clinic has joined with the Maryland Volunteer Lawyers Service to expand its trafficking prevention program. It is designed to pave the way to employment and end cycles of control and abuse.

Howard County police have charged a third woman in connection to the alleged human trafficking of a 16-year-old girl.

Autumn Burton was floored when she first heard about Free Your Voice, a former Baltimore City high school student's successful campaign to prevent a trash

The $150 billion global sex industry has wound its way into the suburbs of Howard County, from downtrodden motels on Route 1 to a hotel in Columbia.

Arthur Billy Coleman, 47, faced his sentence in Howard County Circuit Court on May 5, following a jury's guilty verdict of human trafficking, attempted human trafficking and prostitution during his January trial.

William O. Murray, 29, was charged with multiple counts of human trafficking and prostitution, police spokeswoman Sherry Llewellyn said, and later released from the county jail on $15,000 bond.

Howard County detectives began their investigation by placing fake ads on a website police said is often used for prostitution.

Howard County police arrested eight men in an undercover prostitution operation on Monday in Laurel.

Baltimore bar owners are strictly liable for all the illegal behavior of anyone they employ, whether they knew about it ahead of time or not. 

A New York man has been sentenced to prison for his involvement in the interstate sex trafficking of a 16-year-old girl in a case that was broken in Harford County in 2015.

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Yanbin Lin, 43, was charged with one count of general prostitution, one count of prostitution business and one count of running a massage therapy business without a license. She was held on $2,000 bond, which she posted Saturday and was released, according to electronic court records.

The Baltimore Police Department will begin directing individuals detained for low-level drug and prostitution offenses in the western half of downtown to support services rather than to jail under a three-year pilot program developed in partnership with local nonprofit organizations.

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Residents of Brooklyn, in South Baltimore, hope that pledges of increased street patrols by police include their neighborhood

The executive director of the Maryland Chiefs of Police Association has been charged with soliciting a prostitute who was an undercover police officer, acco

Prince Q. Torres, 25, of District Heights, was charged by Howard County Police with human trafficking, prostitution, assault and a handgun violation. Anthony Kenneth Wilson, 39, of Baltimore, was also charged with conspiring in human trafficking as well as drug distribution.

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A federal jury in Baltimore has convicted a second man in connection with a sex trafficking operation that was cracked in Harford County last year. Raymond Idemudia Aigbekaen, 29, of Amityville, N.Y., was convicted Thursday of conspiracy to commit sex trafficking, sex trafficking of a minor and other charges related to the trafficking of a 16 year-old female for prostitution in Maryland, Virginia, and New York.

Understanding the reality of sex trafficking begins with insight into the market, as well as the perpetrators, victims and customers. The difficulty lies in distinguishing consenting prostitutes from sex-trafficked victims.

A Baltimore teacher faces human trafficking charges in Baltimore County.

Richard Kemp, an English teacher at Glenelg High School, was arrested on on charges of prostitution-general as well as sexual solicitation of a minor, according to an email sent to parents by the school's principal.

Here's a look at some of the crime that's happened recently in the Baltimore metro area.

A Sykesville man is charged with two counts of prostitution after police in Anne Arundel County say he arranged to meet with an undercover police officer and solicited sexual activity in exchange for payment.

Nelson Bernard Clifford, the repeat sex offender who won multiple acquittals after taking the stand and saying the alleged attacks were consensual, was sentenced to more than 30 years in prison Thursday by a judge who said he had exposed "cracks in the system."

Here's a look at some of the crime that's happened recently in the Baltimore metro area.

Howard County Police charged two men this week with soliciting prostitutes online, and warned would-be johns that they are watching closely.

Nelson Bernard Clifford, the sex offender who has been acquitted in his last four trials, took the stand in his own defense again Thursday, telling a jury that he had a consensual encounter with his alleged victim.